Match-making machine.



l ,PATLNTEN JUNE 25, 1907. E. NFEG.l

MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATIOH-IILED AUG. 9, 1905.

UNITED sTATEs nPATENT oEEroE. i

HANS BEEG, OF DURLAOH, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM-OF BADISCHE MASOl-HNENFABRIK UND EISENGIESSEREI, VORM. G. SEBOLD UND SEBOLD & NEFF, OF DURLAOH, GERMANY.

MATCH-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that l, HANS BEEG, residing at Durlach, Hauptstrasse 90, in theGrand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Automatic Match-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in automatic match-making'machines,

and has for its object to provide a simple construction of the mechanism for inserting the splints in the carrier bars. According to the present invention this object is eHected by arrangingbelow the hopper or container that serves for the reception of the match splints a grating or'comb under which is mounted a movable table provided with projections which extend between the bars of the grating or comb. This table in its forward movement pushes the match splints, which by a shaking movement have been caused to fall into the interstices .of the grating or comb, towardthe apertures of the perforated plate situated in front of the table.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1, shows partly in longitudinal section the general arrangement of the mechanism forming the subject of the invention. Fig. 2, is a plan of the grating or comb. Fig. 3, is a plan of the table with the upwardly extending rojections. Fig. 4, is a cross section on ine A-A of Fig. 2. Fig. 5, is a longitudinal section on line B-B of Fig. 2. Fig. 6, is a rear view of the table shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7, is a longitudinal section on line O O of Fig. 3, and Fig. 8, is asection on line D-D of Fig. 1.

a (Fig. 1) is the container for those match splints which are not yet provided with heads. The bottom of this container a is composed of two elements namely, a stationarygrating or comb l), Fig. 2, and aliiat plate c (Fig. 3) situated underneath the same, the plate c being capable of being moved to and fro in ahorizontal direction by means of a lever The upper surface of this plate c is provided over a certain portion of its length with prismatic bars or rojections d which t exactly within and fil the grooves e of the grating b situated above it so as to be Hush with the top thereof (Fig. 8).

Fig. 1, shows the position of the comb b and of the underlying plate c with its proj ections d, in the position of rest. By means of a suitable shaking movement the match splints are caused to arrange themselves in the slots or interstices c of the comb or grating b in such manner that in each slot there is a splint.. In this arrangement the splints lie with their undersides on the plate c.. By the next following forward movement of the plate c (toward the left hand in` Fig. 1) the splints which are situated in the slots e of the grating b, are pushed. forward by the projections cZ of the plate until the forward ends of the splints pass along below a covering plate g (Figs. 1 and 5) into the perforations 7L in a perforated plate or carrier bar i so as to become fixed in the holes therein, the perforations h corresponding with the slots c of the grating and the perforated plate t' being mounted vertically in front of the covering plate g. As soon as this has been effected the plate c is moved back again into the position of rest shown in Fig. 1. The splints that are fixed in the perforated plate i are able to move downward with the perforated plate without hindrance, because they are no longer held from below. Consequently, as will be evident the present invention renders unnecessary the use of the usual inserting-needles and grooved plate on the lowerpart of the splint container, and therefore the drawbacks entailed by the use of the delicate needles are avoided.

It will be observed that the grating b forms a bottom to the box or container a and therefore a support for the match splints therein, while the bars or projections d of the movable plate c, not only perform the function of conveying devices to carry some of the splints from the container a to the car-` rier-bar fi, but also serve as temporary supports for those splints in the container which do not rest on the grating b or on the plate c between its projections.

What I claim as new and of my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a match-making machine, the combination of the splint-hopper or container, the stationary grating forming a bottom for the container and forming spaces into which some of the splints may drop, a movable plate arranged under the grating to support those splints which have dropped into said spaces, said plate being provided with bars or projections adapted to fill said spaces and IOO lie flush With the upper surface of the grating so as to act both as pushers Jfor moving the splints in said spaces and as supports for some of the splints, and a carrier-bar having sockets to receive the splints pushed by the projections of the said plate.

2. In a match-making machine, the combination of the splint-hopper or container, the stationary grating constituting a partial bottom for the container and forming spaces into Which some of the splints may drop, a movable plate arranged under the grating to support those splints which have dropped into said spaces, said platebeing provided on a portion of its Width With bars or projecmovable bars acting as ejectors for those splints Which have fallen into the spaces of the stationary grating, and the upper surfaces of the movable bars acting as supports for some of the splints, the said movable plate projecting beyond the bars it carries so as to support the splints during ejection, and a carrier having sockets to receive the ejected splints.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of tWo Witnesses, this twenty-ninth day of June, 1905.

HANS BEEG.

Witnesses:

WILHELM OLEF, Jos. H. LEUTE. 

